01 A desperate reporter invents a fictional everyman whose folksy speeches accidentally spark a real political movement.
6 Best Edward Arnold Movies
By Vlad Zakh · March 10, 2026
Edward Arnold brought an imposing, commanding physicality to Hollywood film, often playing powerful businessmen and political bosses whose corruption concealed real complexity. In Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): An idealistic new senator’s cynical secretary helps him fight political corruption in Washington. Equally memorable is You Can’t Take It with You (1938): A young woman’s eccentric, free-spirited family clashes with her fiancé’s stiff, wealthy relatives.
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02 An idealistic new senator's cynical secretary helps him fight political corruption in Washington.
03 A young woman's eccentric, free-spirited family clashes with her fiancé's stiff, wealthy relatives.
04 A woman mistaken for a wealthy tycoon's mistress after receiving a discarded fur coat navigates comic chaos.
05 A ruthless lumber baron's ambition costs him the woman he loves, and decades later he covets her daughter instead.
06 A charismatic, larger-than-life tycoon's appetite for excess defines his rise through Gilded Age society.
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